Edwin Katzen-Ellenbogen
Edwin Maria Katzenellenbogen (also spelled Katzen-Ellenbogen) was an American eugenicist and physician in the concentration camp of Buchenwald. Of Polish-Jewish extraction, he had become a naturalized U.S. citizen and worked as a eugenicist for the Carnegie Institution.[1]
Registration card of Edwin Katzenellenbogen as a prisoner at Buchenwald Nazi Concentration Camp
Edwin Katzenellenbogen | |
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 Edwin Katzenellenbogen in April 1947 as defendant at the Buchenwald Trial | |
| Born | Edwin Maria Katzenellenbogen May 22, 1882 |
| Died | After 1955 |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation | Psychiatrist |
| Known for | war criminal |
In the 1930s he was in Germany, and ended up in Buchenwald where he collaborated with the Nazis as a doctor.[2] He became known for his cruelty especially towards French communists. In the Buchenwald Camp Trial (part of the Dachau Trials), he was sentenced to lifetime imprisonment (later modified to 15 years of imprisonment).[3]
References
- Samaan, A. E. (9 November 2020). From a "Race of Masters" to a "Master Race": 1948 to 1848. Library Without Walls, LLC. pp. 45–46. ISBN 978-0-9964163-4-4.
- Weindling, P. (29 October 2004). Nazi Medicine and the Nuremberg Trials: From Medical Warcrimes to Informed Consent. Springer. p. 229. ISBN 978-0-230-50605-3.
- Black, Edwin. "The Story of the New Jersey Doctor Who Helped Kill Prisoners at Buchenwald in the Name of Eugenics". Columbian College of Arts and Sciences. The George Washington University. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
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